Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Harriet Lee
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Standard Name: Lee, Harriet
Birth Name: Harriet Lee
HL
, Romantic-period novelist and dramatist, is remembered primarily for the fiction collection Canterbury Tales, in which her sister Sophia
shared.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | The year after Gonzalvo of Cordova, Barbarina Wilmot (later Lady Dacre)
wrote her next historical tragedy, Pedarias, a Tragic Drama, basing her work this time on Les Incas by Jean-François Marmontel |
Textual Production | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, and her sister the Countess of Bessborough
had almost finished a tragedy they had adapted from Harriet Lee
's Kruitzner, the German's Tale. Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins. 331 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Lamb | M. B.'s purpose in story-telling is not moral improvement but making little girls feel better (the youngest is seven): cheering them up since, newly sent to boarding school, they are crying for home; alleviating their... |
Friends, Associates | Sophia Lee | A bluestocking-style brilliant Constellation Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 185 Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 185 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sophia Lee | Anna Lee, youngest sister of Sophia
and Harriet
, hanged herself from the top railing of her bed, and died. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. |
Textual Production | Sophia Lee | SL
contributed items to the three earlier volumes of Canterbury Tales, of which her sister Harriet
wrote the rest. Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - lii. xlvii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sophia Lee | SL
had one elder and two younger sisters. One of them, Harriet
, became a playwright and novelist like herself. |
Textual Features | Sophia Lee | An Advertisement claims that The Recess is a version, in modernised English, of a manuscript memoir from the reign of Elizabeth I
. It breaks new ground for the English novel in various ways: it... |
Textual Production | Sophia Lee | One of the last postponements, in spring 1796, resulted from the illness of Sarah Siddons, who was to star in it along with her brothers. Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - lii. xxxiii |
Occupation | Sophia Lee | |
Textual Features | Marguerite de Navarre | Whereas Boccaccio
's tale-tellers had retired to a country house while the plague raged in town, and those in Chaucer
's Canterbury Tales were on pilgrimage, Marguerite de Navarre
's travellers are stranded at an... |
Education | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
was said to have learned to read by the time she was three. In January 1806 she got through fifty-five volumes, including books by Sarah Harriet Burney
, Maria Edgeworth
, Elizabeth Hamilton
,... |
Friends, Associates | Hester Lynch Piozzi | |
Friends, Associates | Anna Maria Porter | There they are reported as being neighbours and friends of another pair of literary sisters, Sophia
and Harriet Lee
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Harriet Lee |
Instructor | Ann Radcliffe |
Timeline
June 1793: An enterprising printer and freemason, John...
Writing climate item
June 1793
An enterprising printer and freemason, John Wharlton Bunney
, put out the first number of The Free-Mason's Magazine, or General and Complete Library.
By 22 July 1797: William Beckford published a second and more...
Women writers item
By 22 July 1797
William Beckford
published a second and more marked burlesque attack on women's writing: Azemia: A Descriptive and Sentimental Novel. Interspersed with Pieces of Poetry.
Texts
Lee, Harriet, and Sophia Lee. Canterbury Tales. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1805.
Lee, Harriet. The Errors of Innocence. G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1786.
Lee, Harriet. The Mysterious Marriage. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1798.
Lee, Harriet. The New Peerage. G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1787.